linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 3.18-rc3 v2 1/2] trace: kdb: Fix kernel panic during ftdump

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Message-ID: <20141113212646.6d720886@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:26:46 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, patches@...aro.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 3.18-rc3 v2 1/2] trace: kdb: Fix kernel panic
 during ftdump

On Thu,  6 Nov 2014 12:41:55 +0000
Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org> wrote:

> Currently kdb's ftdump command unconditionally crashes due to a null
> pointer de-reference whenever the command is run. This in turn causes
> the kernel to panic.
> 
> The abridged stacktrace (gathered with ARCH=arm) is:
> --- cut here ---

This is a nasty line. "git am " truncated the change log there thinking
it was the end of the change log (that '---' did it).

-- Steve

> [<c09535ac>] (panic) from [<c02132dc>] (die+0x264/0x440)
> [<c02132dc>] (die) from [<c0952eb8>]
> (__do_kernel_fault.part.11+0x74/0x84)
> [<c0952eb8>] (__do_kernel_fault.part.11) from [<c021f954>]
> (do_page_fault+0x1d0/0x3c4)
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